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two views, one election. want to bring in the white house correspondent of "time" michael sharer and joining us from washington. welcome back. >> thank you, brooke. >> we've just learned here that the candidates and subject to change making the final stops on monday before the election, president in iowa, mitt romney in new hampshire. do you see the stops as significant here, in terms of, you know, popular or electoral significance or merely symbolic? >> well, no. all stops matter at this point in the campaign. what's notable is the same states they keep going back to time and time again. it's an incredibly narrow number of states given historical precedence. you go back to 1960s. a majority of states would be swing states in the country, majority of states would be in play and right now looking at eight, maybe nine states, maybe seven state that is are in play at this point and these guys going back to them over and over again. >> you know, one of the articles i read in the election "time" magazine here is j
two views, one election. want to bring in the white house correspondent of "time" michael sharer and joining us from washington. welcome back. >> thank you, brooke. >> we've just learned here that the candidates and subject to change making the final stops on monday before the election, president in iowa, mitt romney in new hampshire. do you see the stops as significant here, in terms of, you know, popular or electoral significance or merely symbolic? >> well, no....
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if i'm re-elected -- excuse me, if i'm elected -- let me strike that. when i'm elected -- we're going to restore that funding to medicare, and also we're going to repeal and replace obamacare so your premiums don't go up by $2,500 a year. if the president is re-elected, i don't care how much he talks about liking all of the above when it comes to energy. because i know what he means by all of the above. he means all of the energy that comes from above the ground, all right? wind and solar. i like wind and solar, too, but i also like the energy that comes from below the ground. oil, coal and gas, and we'll get it under my administration. i can also tell you this. if the president were to be re-elected, you're going to see high levels of unemployment continue. and stalled wage growth. if any wage growth at all. just like we have seen over the last four years. we know something about the past, we have seen what his policies have produced. the only way to get this economy going is the kind of bold change i've described, real change from day one, with those
if i'm re-elected -- excuse me, if i'm elected -- let me strike that. when i'm elected -- we're going to restore that funding to medicare, and also we're going to repeal and replace obamacare so your premiums don't go up by $2,500 a year. if the president is re-elected, i don't care how much he talks about liking all of the above when it comes to energy. because i know what he means by all of the above. he means all of the energy that comes from above the ground, all right? wind and solar. i...
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>> this election couldn't be more important for women on so many different issues. i mean, making sure women have equal pay is key to eliminating that gap in the economy. now because of health care reform, women have access to preventive care. things like breast cancer screenings and contraception. that's really critical. making sure that their kids can stay on their health care until they're 26 years old, which is a relief to many mothers out there who have kids coming out of college or entering, you know, the work force or the work world and having some kind of health care stability. i'm thinking about malia and sasha. i'm thinking about our daughters and granddaughters. i for one am spending a lot of time out there talking to women to make sure they understand all that's on the line. >> reporter: with so much on the line, the president has taken heat for failing to spend more time building relationships with leaders in washington. in a recent interview he told me why outreach isn't his top priority. >> we make turn down the invitation to this or that or the other
>> this election couldn't be more important for women on so many different issues. i mean, making sure women have equal pay is key to eliminating that gap in the economy. now because of health care reform, women have access to preventive care. things like breast cancer screenings and contraception. that's really critical. making sure that their kids can stay on their health care until they're 26 years old, which is a relief to many mothers out there who have kids coming out of college or...
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but to be clear, this kind of stuff goes on every election. what may be different now is social media shining a light on it, regular people sort of seeing the underbelly of campaigning and they don't like it. that's perhaps why we're hearing more about it. >> what is your twitter feed? @joejohnscnn? >> yes. >> if you want good reading, go to that and see what you come up with. it's fun. are these examples of a wider effort to keep turnout down among certain ethnic or income groups? the right will say no, the left will say yes. >> reporter: you got it. and you have to do these things case by case. nobody's ever going to tell you what the real deal is. but it could be a question of intimidation in some cases. look at the signs in ohio and wisconsin, all they really did was state the law. voter fraud is a felony but the question is whether that kind of language was intimidating to people who saw the billboards and what the signs didn't say was that voter fraud is a problem in far less than 1% of the -- >> is voter fraud a big problem in this coun
but to be clear, this kind of stuff goes on every election. what may be different now is social media shining a light on it, regular people sort of seeing the underbelly of campaigning and they don't like it. that's perhaps why we're hearing more about it. >> what is your twitter feed? @joejohnscnn? >> yes. >> if you want good reading, go to that and see what you come up with. it's fun. are these examples of a wider effort to keep turnout down among certain ethnic or income...
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social media played a huge role in the 2008 election. this year, there's another breakthrough in technology. our tech reporter laurie siegel is here to tell us all about it. good to see you, laurie. >> good to see you. >> technology this go around effecting the election cycle how? >> look, you had back in 2008, you had twitter, you had facebook. you know, that's nothing new. you also had youtube, but what is really new is people really trying to take advantage of those facebook likes, the mentions, and it sounds simple to say, but the technology, it's data, utilizing all this data and being able to target voters. we went and spoke with someone who is a technallgist on the 2008 campaign with obama. we asked what was going to be the break through technology. listen to what he had to say, fredricka. >> dwoun 12, there's a huge opportunity to take things like facebook data or offline donation data or donation data or actions on the website, putting that all together into one cohesive system and then running experiments and optim e optimizing
social media played a huge role in the 2008 election. this year, there's another breakthrough in technology. our tech reporter laurie siegel is here to tell us all about it. good to see you, laurie. >> good to see you. >> technology this go around effecting the election cycle how? >> look, you had back in 2008, you had twitter, you had facebook. you know, that's nothing new. you also had youtube, but what is really new is people really trying to take advantage of those...
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keep in mind, eight days from the presidential election, one-fifth, one-fifth of the united states is bracing for this gargantuan storm hitting here, all up and down. it will be hitting all up and down the east coast. take a look here as we have pictures all up and down the east coast. we'll be looking with you. first of all, obviously, you're looking at this. this is from space. this is sandy there swirling. these are images thanks to nasa. a little earlier in the day where you can see it is this gigantic storm, been as basically the swath between memphis and los angeles if you were going to try to map that. want to move on, though, and tell you as we have these live pictures here, atlantic city, these are tape pictures, but you can see, look at the water here. some cars moving. atlantic city. we've been looking into atlantic counties, specifically, something like five feet of water on some of these roads and, folks, it will get worse. right now we know of at least 116,000 homes without power. those numbers will obviously change. but i just want to hit home this point, that everythin
keep in mind, eight days from the presidential election, one-fifth, one-fifth of the united states is bracing for this gargantuan storm hitting here, all up and down. it will be hitting all up and down the east coast. take a look here as we have pictures all up and down the east coast. we'll be looking with you. first of all, obviously, you're looking at this. this is from space. this is sandy there swirling. these are images thanks to nasa. a little earlier in the day where you can see it is...